Liminal Space

Dear Friends,

Several years ago I heard a talk about the liminal spaces in our lives, and that talk has stuck with me through so many years, transitions and changes in my own life.  If you’ve never heard the phrase, liminal space talks about the place a person finds themselves in during a transition.  There are physical liminal spaces, emotional spaces, and metaphorical spaces that manifest in our lives…but all liminal spaces are characterized by a level of uncertainty.  

Melissa Cohen, a transition expert, says "uncertainty can be very uncomfortable, lonely, overwhelming, paralyzing, emotionally demanding and mentally exhausting.  But, it can also be transformative and valuable, providing creativity, strength and the opportunity to move forward, evolve, grow and develop a mindset that anything is possible."

Liminal spaces can be transformative and valuable.  Liminal spaces can bring about creativity, strength, and growth.  Yes, liminal spaces often bring about periods of discomfort, and yet, when we are willing to shift and change when using those spaces, I think we then have the opportunity to become truer, more authentic versions of ourselves.

I wonder how it might feel if we were willing to change the rhetoric around those uncomfortable liminal spaces in our lives.  I wonder how it might feel if we were able to really lean into the good in the midst of the discomfort in those spaces.  I wonder if that change in rhetoric might help us shift and find a little more ease in the midst of those spaces of discomfort.

I hope you have a transformative week, my friend.

Love
Krista